Did you know that in 15 minutes the sun radiates as much energy as mankind consumes in all forms, during an entire year? And it does it every day – for free. Solar power is a safe, clean and renewable energy resource that will no doubt play a vital role in powering our future.

While the cost of all other energy sources, and thereby retail electricity, keeps rising; the cost of solar keeps coming down year-on-year. The idea is to utilize alternate resources to conserve energy. It not only providesclean solution but is also financially viable.

When properly designed, a PV system not only helps our environment, but it makes economical sense as well. Owners of PV systems make an important contribution to protecting the environment while enjoying the economic advantages of their clean electricity at the same time.

Solar powered technology has advanced a great deal in the past few decades. A Photo voltaic Cell is a device that generates electricity by reacting to the sunrays. In order to generate a significant amount of electricity, many of these cells are combined to create a solar panel. These panels are also known as photovoltaic cells, solar cells or solar panels.

World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is observed around the world every year on May 31. It is intended to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption across the globe. The day is further intended to draw global attention to the widespread prevalence of tobacco use and to negative health effects, which currently lead to 5.4 million deaths worldwide annually.

On the Eve of WNTD, PFF Celebrates every year Public Awareness Activities with collaboration Partners.

The concept of community mobilization emerged from the recognition that a genuine participatory approach to development is essential for success and sustainability. Community mobilization is an approach and tool that enables people to organize for collective action, by pooling resources and building solidarity required to resolve common problems and work towards community advancement. It is a process that empowers Children, Women and Men to organize their own democratically self-governing groups or community organizations which enable them to initiate and control their own personal and communal development.

Community Mobilization of PFF aimed at mobilizing community support mechanism including Community Based Organizations (CBOs) to ensure participation of all segments of society in development process. In accordance with such a process, PFF focuses on formation of grassroots level institutions, and raising awareness on quality education and basic health and hygiene conditions in rural areas through conducting meetings with community members.

In backward areas many students are dropping out of school because their parents cannot to afford to provide uniform, text books, school bag and such other items. Their parents are mainly working in fields as labour and earn Rs.200 – 300 per day. We motivate their parents through counseling sessions to send their children to school. FRIENDS has been providing educational material to these poor children consisting of Bags, text books, notebooks, geometry box, pencils, pens . We select the candidates by personal visits to their homes to assess the family background. We also take inputs from the school head masters to select the students who are doing well in studies.
You can donate for educational material for these deserving children, and thereby ensure that they do not drop out of school.